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R. M. Ballantyne

1825 - 1894

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Robert Michael Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 1894) was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction, who wrote more than a hundred books. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of R. M. Ballantyne has received more than 194,002 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). R. M. Ballantyne is the 5,285th most popular writer (up from 5,314th in 2019), the 3,983rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,299th in 2019) and the 445th most popular British Writer.

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  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, R. M. Ballantyne ranks 5,285 out of 7,302Before him are James Dashner, Shrilal Shukla, Heðin Brú, Ricardo Güiraldes, Semir Osmanagić, and Marguerite Audoux. After him are Fritz von Unruh, Magdi Allam, Joël Dicker, Thea Beckman, Diane di Prima, and Sergey Gorodetsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, R. M. Ballantyne ranks 76Before him are George Inness, Anton Heinrich Springer, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, Adelaide Anne Procter, Giuseppe Prinzi, and Richard Maack. After him are A. P. Hill, Francisco Antonino Vidal, William McGonagall, James Collinson, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, and Francisco Linares Alcántara. Among people deceased in 1894, R. M. Ballantyne ranks 79Before him are Adolf Friedrich von Schack, George Romanes, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Victor Duruy, George Inness, and Alphons Czibulka. After him are Kitamura Tokoku, Remigio Morales Bermúdez, Alexander Wittek, Lobengula, John Sparrow David Thompson, and José Eugenio Ellauri.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, R. M. Ballantyne ranks 3,983 out of 8,785Before him are Kenneth More (1914), Trevor Taylor (1936), Tony Barton (1937), Ron Tauranac (1925), Hugh Clapperton (1788), and Bart McGhee (1899). After him are Robert Jameson (1774), James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife (1929), George Edwards (1694), Lisa Stansfield (1966), Saffron Burrows (1972), and Anthony Joshua (1989).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, R. M. Ballantyne ranks 445Before him are David McKee (1935), Bob Shaw (1931), George Crabbe (1754), Ælfric of Eynsham (955), Thomas Love Peacock (1785), and Edward Carpenter (1844). After him are Joanne Harris (1964), Sax Rohmer (1883), Charles Wilkins (1749), Benjamin Zephaniah (1958), Charles Montagu Doughty (1843), and Daniel Tammet (1979).